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In the wake of the Paris attacks, a furious debate has arisen over the rights and responsibilities of the press — specifically, whether the world’s newspapers had a right, if not a responsibility, to print the offending Charlie Hebdo cartoons, or whether they had a responsibility, if not a right, to decline to do so.

No one knows what Stephen J. Harper will do. Nobody knows whether the prime minister will call an election early in 2015, for example, to slip a campaign through before Mike Duffy’s trial begins in April.

OTTAWA — An unprecedented public dispute between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada has laid bare the federal government’s frustration with the court’s decisions, just as the Conservatives prepare to appoint a new Quebec judge to the country’s highest court.

OTTAWA — Sen. Hugh Segal is taking one more shot at filling a what critics say is a hole in legislative oversight of this country's intelligence agencies. On Thursday, Segal introduced what is likely to be the last bill he introduces as a member of the upper chamber that would, if passed, create a national security and intelligence oversight committee made up of senators and MPs. Segal has repeatedly lobbied publicly for the federal government to create an intelligence oversight committee — and the government has repeatedly said no.

OTTAWA — The Prime Minister's Office coughed up $4.1 million in severance and separation pay over the first seven years of Stephen Harper's tenure for 196 departing PMO employees, according to government documents.